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All GW's/Cheney's policy did was cost the USA thousands of military lives, billions in treasure and they grew Islamic terror by leaps and bounds!

questioning two wars with faulty intel, i can allow.
questioning iraq's relationship with twin towers/911, i can allow.
questioning undocumented expectations that "all peoples want liberation and freedom", i can allow.

but franco my friend you are an observant, logical and thinking man. i submit that: if islam is growing worldwide. then, islamic terror is growing worldwide. islamic terror needs no pretense of presidential policy in order to grow. reagan, bush, clinton, bush, obama......whatever, whoever matters not.

had the U.S. never invaded iraq or afganistan someone would have insulted the profit or desecrated a holy book or spilled mountain dew on a prayer rug. the hate for us is what it is. there is not one more muslim terrorist today than there would have been had we never sent the first troop to the middle east, they would have just indoctrinated and recruited with a different sermon.

they are muslims, they already have their reason! is anyone listening to me?

questioning two wars with faulty intel, i can allow.
questioning iraq's relationship with twin towers/911, i can allow.
questioning undocumented expectations that "all peoples want liberation and freedom", i can allow.

but franco my friend you are an observant, logical and thinking man. i submit that: if islam is growing worldwide. then, islamic terror is growing worldwide. islamic terror needs no pretense of presidential policy in order to grow. reagan, bush, clinton, bush, obama......whatever, whoever matters not.

had the U.S. never invaded iraq or afganistan someone would have insulted the profit or desecrated a holy book or spilled mountain dew on a prayer rug. the hate for us is what it is. there is not one more muslim terrorist today than there would have been had we never sent the first troop to the middle east, they would have just indoctrinated and recruited with a different sermon.

they are muslims they already have their reason! is anyone listening to me?

questioning two wars with faulty intel, i can allow.
questioning iraq's relationship with twin towers/911, i can allow.
questioning undocumented expectations that "all peoples want liberation and freedom", i can allow.

but franco my friend you are an observant, logical and thinking man. i submit that: if islam is growing worldwide. then, islamic terror is growing worldwide. islamic terror needs no pretense of presidential policy in order to grow. reagan, bush, clinton, bush, obama......whatever, whoever matters not.

had the U.S. never invaded iraq or afganistan someone would have insulted the profit or desecrated a holy book or spilled mountain dew on a prayer rug. the hate for us is what it is. there is not one more muslim terrorist today than there would have been had we never sent the first troop to the middle east, they would have just indoctrinated and recruited with a different sermon.

they are muslims, they already have their reason! is anyone listening to me?

questioning two wars with faulty intel, i can allow.
questioning iraq's relationship with twin towers/911, i can allow.
questioning undocumented expectations that "all peoples want liberation and freedom", i can allow.

but franco my friend you are an observant, logical and thinking man. i submit that: if islam is growing worldwide. then, islamic terror is growing worldwide. islamic terror needs no pretense of presidential policy in order to grow. reagan, bush, clinton, bush, obama......whatever, whoever matters not.
had the U.S. never invaded iraq or afganistan someone would have insulted the profit or desecrated a holy book or spilled mountain dew on a prayer rug. the hate for us is what it is. there is not one more muslim terrorist today than there would have been had we never sent the first troop to the middle east, they would have just indoctrinated and recruited with a different sermon.

they are muslims, they already have their reason! is anyone listening to me?

Not only is this not factual a little history lesson is in order.

The very first terrorist bomb to ignite in the middleeast was set by a Zionist group known as the Irgun. Their bomb killed 100 visitors to the King David Hotel around 1946-47. They had planted another bomb frequented by Muslims but the bomb attempt was foiled by the Israel Haganah.

The King David Hotel bombing was the beginning of hostilites between the Isrealis and the Muslims of the area. It wasn't until the USA got involved that the entire region turned against our Foreign Policy first, then America itself.

I blame our intrusive Foreign Policy, picking the wrong people to support in the Muslim countries and our total disregard for their side of the story for the situation today. The 911 attackes were due to the growing American presents in that region. They see us as the insurgent and that we stand in the way of peace.

The NeoCons do a great job of keeping many Americans paranoid and fearful. By doing so, it allows them to funnel billions to military contractors which in turn send huge campaign contributions to those politicians. The main reason for our 17 TRILLION Deficit is because of the military lobby and the people that are managed by that fear. Al one has to do is look at the difference between our Defense spending and our military spending. Just look at the evidence here on POTUS! We have posters advocationing war with Iran, bombing Syria and still refuse to see the huge mistake we made in invading Iraq.

BTW, the Israelis did not seek LBJ's approval during the 6 Day War. They didn't seek Nixon's approval in the Yom Kippur War of 72. They didn't seek GW Bush's approval in 06 when they invaded Lebanon. So, not seeking our approval over the weekend is nothing new.

The only problem with your argument Franco is that Islamic terrorists don't just have it in for us unless you are directing your comments to our involvement in Iraq specifically. It's the Islamic fanatics vs. the world. You're not saying the rest of the world is at fault are you? I realize this is not exactly in line with the posts but it is to show the mind set of the radicals we face.

The only problem with your argument Franco is that Islamic terrorists don't just have it in for us unless you are directing your comments to our involvement in Iraq specifically. It's the Islamic fanatics vs. the world. You're not saying the rest of the world is at fault are you? I realize this is not exactly in line with the posts but it is to show the mind set of the radicals we face.

I think one needs to ask the question, why are they at war with the west?

How would you feel if Iran conducted military manuvers off the Virginia coast? Or, what if they put their own puppets as out head of state? I'm not suggesting they are blameless! It is just that our Foreign Policy has been so bad that we have fanned the flames as well as provided the fuel for the fire.

I said years ago on the RTF that we should have never stopped Isreal from pacifying the region. They only reason we idn't let them was because the USSR did a great job of scaring LBJ in 1967. They were able to do so because we were mired in another war we should have never been involed in, Vietnam. Actions have consequences and much of our actions are not well thought out and more reactionary in nature. We need a guiding principle with our Foreign Policy, one we haven't had since the end of WW2.

questioning two wars with faulty intel, i can allow.
questioning iraq's relationship with twin towers/911, i can allow.
questioning undocumented expectations that "all peoples want liberation and freedom", i can allow.

but franco my friend you are an observant, logical and thinking man. i submit that: if islam is growing worldwide. then, islamic terror is growing worldwide. islamic terror needs no pretense of presidential policy in order to grow. reagan, bush, clinton, bush, obama......whatever, whoever matters not.

had the U.S. never invaded iraq or afganistan someone would have insulted the profit or desecrated a holy book or spilled mountain dew on a prayer rug. the hate for us is what it is. there is not one more muslim terrorist today than there would have been had we never sent the first troop to the middle east, they would have just indoctrinated and recruited with a different sermon.

they are muslims, they already have their reason! is anyone listening to me?

I would encourage you to do a little extra reading on western influence in the middle east. The roots of middle east terrorism go back to imperial Britain and we joined up with their imperial mindset in the fifties. Since then we have been stoking the fire of radical Islam with every moderate leader we help overthrow (Iran, Iraq, Libya, and coming soon Syria)

historically imams begin spewing hatred and supporting the bombing innocents in 1946 or '47(correct me if i am wrong again please) and their cause grows worlwide because of U.S. policy in the mid east region.

i start spewing a little hatred.........and instead of my cause growing worldwide(or even on a dog forum) i get a history lesson from a libertarian.

this and "precision weaponry" is why our country will never win another war!

got news for you Franco, the hostility between the Jews and the Muslims has been going on since basically the beginning of time....

Got the news long ago and this is just too simplistic it is not even relevent to the situtaion today. I'm well aware of the history of the area back to the days when the Isrealites fought with the Philisteens. All over the globe, throughtout history there have been regional conflicts. The French vs the English, the Koreans and the Japaneese, the Fins and the Russians etc.

What we are seeing today is a results of our policy, especially over the last 25 years. We have grown Islamic terror by leaps and bounds because we have our nose stuck in a place where it doesn't belong! Our invasion of Iraq just made it that much worse.